Wednesday, October 1, 2014

Carmel is sweet.

9/22/2014

This week was crazy good. It flew by. I swear yesterday
was Monday. We taught the most lessons ever on my mission this week...WAHOO! We
still haven't got anyone on date, but we found like crazy so it was awesome!
This transfer is going to fly...well it already is flying.

So last Monday, we did the usual then went to Fishers and
played. It was fun to finally be back around missionaries so we could actually
do something on P-Days haha. :) Then after, we went to the Bmn's for dinner and
shared a message with them. I don't remember if I said last week, but he's a
stoneman for the temple and is working on the baptismal font. He has done it
for the Nauvoo and a bunch of other temples. Sweet right? Tons of people in the
ward are working on it. It looks SO GOOD.

Tuesday, we went and saw an investigator with Brother Flnr
in the morning (we ended up dropping him...he believes in reincarnation and
just isn't sure or committed) then we had lunch, taught Sm (dropped him too...)
and Sbrn, and then taught our investigator Bn. He is super cool and super
normal haha. He has been reading the Book of Mormon! He even read it while
walking through Toys-R-Us, so he's also being a missionary hahaha. He committed
to baptism, but as far as a date, he's a little skeptical. But he'll get there.
We're going to hopefully meet his wife this week too. Then the Moala's brought us dinner (Bro. Moala plays for the Colts. I
think he's doing rehab right now, but have you heard of him? I think he played
for USC.) and we went and taught Dn (the one we found last week) and he
accepted baptism! He's just crazy busy right now, so scheduling appointments
with him is a little hard. Then we headed to Zionsville for exchanges.

So on Wednesday, I was in Zionsville with Sister Blmn. She
is from Iowa, so she's only like 8 hours from home. Crazy, right? But for most
of the day we just PC'd and contacted. It was super sweet. We just talked to
everyone. It was awesome. We also taught a less-active and a member and had
dinner at a member's house. Zionsville is an adorable little town. It's been
said to be the most difficult area in the mission, but I know that miracles are
just waiting to happen there! There's tons of people, so I'm excited for those
sisters to be there. They're going to tear it up!

Thursday, we spent the morning visiting some members to
set up church tours and PC'd, weekly planned (I got to call the Tckrs! They are
adorable! They're still doing good, the missionaries just haven't been coming
around since I left the little stinks...)). Then we went and visited more
members and did more contacting, went to the Sdrs for dinner (They have a
daughter in the Ogden North Mission but she's never served in Tremonton) and
then we had a cancelled appointment that night and I don't really remember what
we did...hm....

Friday, we had District Meeting, went to Chick-fil-A for
lunch, and then went and found 3 new investigators at a hoppin' complex in
Indy! It was super sweet. Our appointment cancelled so we just PC'd and saw
miracles! Then we saw a less-active and then went to the Vn Brgn's for dinner
and then saw a new family in the ward who is from Russia. They're pretty sweet.

Saturday, we had a church tour in the morning with the Cprs
and then we were going to give our investigator Ik a church tour but he got
into anti and ranted about that so we just resolved concerns there. He was
telling us all about how God created women as the weaker vessel and that Jesus
is black. Legit. The member we brought with us was like...uhhh...haha I love
the mission. Then after that we saw a couple potentials and got a new
investigator (he's Buddhist and ridiculously open to anything) and then we saw
a less-active then headed to Plainfield for Jn's baptism (Sister Rh and Sister
Hwrd taught her.) It was pretty funny because Sister Frncs also taught her and
Sister Blmn and Sister Rh and Sister Hwrd all taught her and I served in
Plainfield and we're all in the same district. It turned out awesome. And we
got to see all the Plainfield people, so it was great. Then we taught A when we
got back and had an 8:00 dinner.

Sunday, we had meetings (Ward Council here is hilarious.
It always ends up crazy funny.) and went about church then tried an
investigator, had lunch, went to a member's and he was harvesting honey so we
got to watch (and taste...YUM) them extract it. SUPER SWEET. Then we had 2 more
church tours, had dinner with the Cprs, then went out visiting with Sister Hwll.
Our appointment cancelled and our 1st backup didn't work so we went with the
spirit and stopped by an investigator and we were just what she needed cause
her mom died a week ago. It was awesome. We're teaching her again this week and
she knows she needs it. Miracles are THE BEST.

And here we are again.

My thought this week comes from the Bible Dictionary under
Sabbath. You should all go read it. The Sabbath is really the key to everything
we do. As President told us, the Sabbath is the "big game". You work
your whole week up toward Sunday so that you can worship and show that God is
whom you trust because you're willing to give up a day for Him. Love it.
Seriously, go read the definition in the BD. It'll change your life. Hopefully.
haha :) But I know that the Sabbath is SO IMPORTANT and that we really receive
so many blessings from simply setting apart time to gain our spiritual boost
for the week.

To answer letters:

I Loved Ellie's letter! Adorable!

I am still hardcore, don't worry! :) (I asked her if she was getting soft!) And being a
Sister Training leader basically just means we go on exchanges with all the
sisters in our leadership to provide training and we help with stress/emotional
issues and just basically are there as a support. (Just
wondered what a Sister Training Leader's responsibilities were)

I have been getting Zach's emails the past couple weeks,
but for like forever before that I hadn't been. (Some
how Zach's emails have not been reaching her!)

I think it's Will's mom that is related to the Switzers.
They kind of look alike, so that would make sense. (Someone
we know from Tremonton are related to the Switzers – small world)

Lou fixed some Puerto Rican chicken and rice and bread and
deviled eggs (aka evil eggs according to him.) (I had
asked her what the man from the library had fixed them to eat)

The Blueberry festival shirt is gray with Blueberry Hank
on it. (wondered what the Blueberry festival shirts
looked like)

The Hodges leave on October 1 I think. (Missionary couple who work in the Mission Office)

My favorite picture of you two I think is on facebook...I
think I had an album called oldies but goodies or something...It's also on my
iPhone as long as you haven't deleted anything. (It was
Chuck and I's 25th wedding anniversary on September 16 and Darcie
has this one picture of us that is hilarious to everyone but me! I was going to
share on fb but I couldn't find it)